They Can Hear Your Smile

Directed by Michael Jiřinec

With Daniela Voráčková, Veronika Švábová, Jan Dörner, Josef Havelka and Medard Zeman

The eponymous debt collection call center’s marketing slogan is taken to its extreme, depersonalized operators are roused from their lethargy by unbridled laughter. Not mockery, but pure, contagious laughter at the tragicomedy of trapped debtors, its echo tearing apart the operator’s apathy and the walls of the claustrophobic open-plan office.